Showing posts with label interactive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interactive. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Can You Solve the Murder? by Antony Johnston - 4 Stars!


There’s been a murder at Elysium, a wellness retreat in an English country manor. You arrive to find the body of a local businessman on the lawn with a rose placed in his mouth. It appears he was stabbed with a gardening fork and fell to his death from the balcony above. But that balcony can only be accessed through a locked door, the key is missing, and everyone in Elysium is now a suspect.
Gather the evidence and examine the clues. Choose who to interview, and who to accuse as your prime suspect. Every decision you make has consequences and some of them will prove fatal. Do you have what it takes? Can YOU solve the murder?
This was one of the most interesting books I've read recently. It's an interactive novel where the reader is the detective and makes the decisions during the investigation. But there are pitfalls and dead ends that you have to watch out for. The one thing I thought was strange was that at the end you were scored by the clues you found. I thought that was a little too much. I like to read for relaxation, but it became more of a challenge with this book.